Rolling Stone USA - 08.2019

The ‘Rolling Stone’ 200 ranks the most popular albums

in the United States, using both sales and streams

Top Albums

SONG SALES

2.8%

AUDIO STREAMS

66.2%

PHYSICAL ALBUM SALES

18.9%

DIGITAL ALBUM SALES

12.1%

The Black Keys

‘Let’s Rock’

Nonesuch

Lil Nas X

7

Columbia

Khalid

Free Spirit

RCA

Mustard

Perfect Ten

Interscope

J Balvin, Bad Bunny

Oasis

UMLE

Jonas Brothers

Happiness

Begins

Republic

DaBaby

Baby on Baby

Interscope

Various Artists

Spider-Man: Into

the Spider-Verse

Interscope

47.6K

42.8K

37.3K

34.9K

33.9K

27.6K

24.3K

3 4 5 6 7 8 9

10

Billie Eilish

When We All

Fall Asleep...

Interscope

2 50.9K

LONG PLAYER

In the past 18 months or

so, shorter albums have

become a hot trend.

Apparently, no one told

Chris Brown, as his ninth

LP checks in at 32 songs.

Still, most fans were

seemingly content to

listen to it from start to

finish, helping it debut at

Number One on the ROLL-

ING STONE 200 with more

than 90 million streams.

Chris Brown

Indigo

RCA

1

Billie Eilish

The 17-year-old’s

fans continue

to stream her

music like crazy:

Her 76 million

weekly streams

easily outpace

more seasoned

performers like

Post Malone and

Ariana Grande.

Black Keys

Fans of the duo

still buy albums —

the LP sold nearly

35,000 in its

debut week.

Juice WRLD

Listeners keep

returning to the

rapper’s March

LP, Death Race for

Love, despite no

recent huge hits.

ALBUM UNITS

J Balvin and

Bad Bunny

Eight songs from

this team-up of

Latin titans hit the

Top 50 on Spotify.

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ALBUM UNITS is a metric combining album sales, song sales, and audio streams,

using a custom weighting system.

The ‘Rolling Stone’ Artists 500 ranks the most in-demand

artists in the United States by total audio streams

Top Artists

UNSTOPPABLE,

AS USUAL

Drake has barely put

out any music in 2019,

but listeners devoured

“Omertà” and “Money in

the Grave,” the two songs

he released to celebrate

the Toronto Raptors

winning the NBA cham-

pionship in June. Thanks

especially to the latter

song, a collaboration with

Rick Ross, the Canadian

is the most-streamed

artist in America.

Drake

Republic

1

Chris Brown

RCA

Billie Eilish

Interscope

Lil Nas X

Columbia

Post Malone

Republic

Khalid

RCA

Ariana

Grande

Republic

Juice WRLD

Interscope

You ng B oy

Never Broke

Again

Atlantic

Taylor Swift

Republic

110.6M

76.0M

58.0M

56.2M

53.8M

51.5M

50.5M

48.6M

48.0M

2 3 4 5 6 7 8

10

(^) ARTISTS on the Artists 500 are ranked by audio streams, which are the most reflective
metrics of today’s music landscape.
AUDIO STREAMS
110.8M
AUDIO STREAMS
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ALBUM UNITS
100.4K